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Hiatus

Well, I am going to sign off for a bit but hope to be back and have time to blog in a very short time! I love all the e-mails! Enjoy your family and friends at this beautiful time of year!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Happy Birthday to my amazing and wonderful Mom!!! There is NO mom as great as MINE!!!
Those that know her love her and those that do not...well you are missing out on a super lady!
Not only is she a great mom but an even BETTER Grammy!! Boy does she spoil those grand kids!

Today is a milestone birthday! (A REAL BIG ONE MOM! WHEW!) But she sure looks great for that age!! :)

LOVE YOU MOM!!
We look forward to celebrating with you!!!

WARNING!

Our lives are pretty much consumed with packing...after the bigger kids headed out to scho0l this a.m I decided to tackle Emma's closet. NOT her clothes but all the OTHER items she stashes in her closet which seems HUMUNGOUS to me when I have to box/organize it all. I quickly pulled together the ONE THOUSAND Polly Pocket bits and pieces, (do not call me to task on exaggerating numbers here...I will ARGUE!) Barbie Boutique Ensembles, and many craft supplies. The other thing is how could an eight year old accumulate so many flip flops!?!?! I digress...so I gather it all up neatly, marking each container and then setting them neatly by the book shelf with plans to load them into the van and put them right in her new closet. I ran into the laundry room to switch the clean clothes to the dryer and let's estimate how long that took me shall we? Maybe 4.5 to 6 minutes and that includes pressing the "start" button right? Well, as I left the laundry room I glanced to see that Sam was NOT playing with his trains any longer and said, "Sam? What are you doing?" and he replied, "NOTHING!!!" THIS is the point where every mother of any three year old goes into high alert and begins the search to find this child...well, too late...he had entered Emma's room and had managed to dump out every container, scatter, mix and create utter havoc! This, from a child that cannot zip his coat yet!!!! So, I did what every woman in her right mind would do...I went to the kitchen and poured another cup of coffee!!

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November was National Adoption Month and that is why I have had so many awesome videos. I had to add just one more. The statistics are mind boggling! We reach out at Christmas more than any other time of the year but the needs are there all through the year.

A blast from the past!! I love it! LOVE IT!

It just isn't Christmas without a song from our dear little friends!!!!

I NEED to videotape Mitchell and Sam singing this song...it is absolutely comical...Mitchell giggles until he cries hearing Sam say "Hool Ahh Hoop!!"

First snow at the Glen

Oh, the pleasure of waking up to a school delay and subsequent closing on Wednesday and then another delay today! We all welcomed the slower pace of the morning! Plenty of snow at the new house and the contractors made it out to work despite the roads...we are thankful for that!



Thanks to my Dad for taking this pretty picture AND doing a marathon jaunt of hanging blinds!!

***I had to add one of my favorite snow poems here...I used to read this over and over and wish that I could ride a horse through the snowy wood with its harness bells tinkling....WAIT...I still would love to do that!

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening,

whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

he will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer, to stop without a farmhouse near.

Between the woods and frozen lake

the darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

to ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

by Robert Frost

"When I speak of home, I speak of the place where-

in default of a better-

those I love are gathered together;

and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn,

I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding."

~Charles Dickens

Little Town of Lights

A very cold night so we layered up Sam until he could hardly walk! He didn't seem to mind!
Santa and Mrs. Claus are always available and Emma told him what she would like for Christmas!
The night was festive as Meghan, Madeleine, Kate and Emma hammed it up! They had such a great time chumming around! Cookies, and peppermint sticks helped make the season bright too! The pharmacy had a chocolate fountain which was a big hit and I think most kids under seven had chocolate running down their winter coats! :)

Our Little Town of Lights is really an event we look forward to every year...it was suppose to rain and didn't and we enjoyed the night so much! After walking the streets, gathering goodies and seeing the live nativity we ended the evening with a wagon ride singing Christmas carols and a hot dog from the police station. It is always a great kick off to the Christmas season!